Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Everyone should work in the service industry at some pt. I just saw a dish included microgreens and was instantly rocketed back to working at a restaurant in Malibu, where a woman told me she was allergic to microgreens and her husband whispered to me after "she just says that for attention." 020
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I embedded at an adult summer camp of women in their 20s through their 80s hoping to make new friends. The 60-something women of Cabin 3 and I danced, swam, went down the water slide, discussed mortality, then raged to Smash Mouth. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...theatlantic.comThe Golden Girls, but in a Camp CabinMy weekend at adult summer camp 041
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/08/2026At Camp Social, friendship has no preamble, @nancywalecki.bsky.social writes. She reports on her weekend at an adult summer camp for women hoping to make new friends, and the bond—and high jinks—she saw among a group of campers in their 50s and 60s.bit.lyThe Golden Girls, but in a Camp CabinMy weekend at adult summer camp 0224
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I kind of feel like all of heaven is having a huge party right now, welcoming Dolly Parton into the fold. 090
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 18/08/2026If you want to know what this fire season has been like, talk to the ranchers spending 36 straight hours on military surplus dozers from the Vietnam War... so I did! Best part of reporting this story was trying to get ranchers to brag about themselves :) www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...theatlantic.com 081
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Airplane WiFi is starting to get super good. Please read my silly little ode to bad airplane wifi and why we might miss our last bastion of unreachability: www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...theatlantic.comOur Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is GoneSubpar connectivity on airplanes was a gift, in a way. 010
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/08/2026Flying was once a rare, bounded period of time untethered from the world below—but good plane Wi-Fi is taking that luxury away, @nancywalecki.bsky.social writes.bit.lyAirplane Wi-Fi Is Great Now!Oh no. 3182
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Today is my first day as a staff writer at The Atlantic!! Please send any story ideas, wild tales, and people to profile my way! I'm thinking of my beat very broadly as "different people's attempts at the good life," whether through religion, wellness, etc. Excited to be here @theatlantic.com ! 1120
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Definitely one of the goofiest assignments I’ve gotten and a total delight to report. Thank you to the paleontologists who spent this smoky summer Friday chatting with me about the smoky skies 66 million years ago! And let’s all be grateful we aren’t dinosaurs. 0295
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic Communications @theatlanticpr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We are announcing four new roles and promotions at The Atlantic: Marc Novicoff, @nancywalecki.bsky.social, Michael Zelenko, and James Kirchick. More info here: www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...theatlantic.comThe Atlantic Announces Marc Novicoff and Nancy Walecki as Staff Writers, Michael Zelenko as Senior Editor, and James Kirchick as Contributing WriterNone 231
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiDamon Beres @damonberes.com · 10/07/2026Really like this piece by @nancywalecki.bsky.social about resurrecting old tech—and I’ve also recently been wondering whether the AI-driven RAMpocalypse will drive more people to vintage tech, further assert the importance of repairability, etc.theatlantic.comThe Newest Way to Go AnalogDigital devices from a less connected era are getting a second life. 3268
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/07/2026The iPod and other devices from a less connected era are getting a second life, @nancywalecki.bsky.social reports. She explores why some Gen Zers are joining the recent “analog” movement:bit.lyThe Newest Way to Go AnalogDigital devices from a less connected era are getting a second life. 7357
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is a real shame these ads are getting taken off air. My dad was featured in the most recent CDC Tips from a Former Smoker campaign, sharing what smoking and his laryngectomy took from him and my family. Namely, his voice: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...nytimes.comEfforts to Help Smokers Quit Stall Under Trump 021
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/05/2026If the point of a perfume is not just to smell nice but also to project an identity, Brittany Aldean is selling the vision of a conservative woman who has it all, @nancywalecki.bsky.social argues—she reports on the influencer's new fragrance line:bit.lyA Perfume With a Whiff of MAGABrittany Aldean’s Vada perfume codes conservative because she herself does. 12105
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiDr Katie Gaddini @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social · 15/05/2026"By and large, Gaddini has found that young Christian women want to be a wife and a mother and have a high-powered job." Engaging and nuanced piece by @nancywalecki.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com today. Check it out here: www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...theatlantic.comA Perfume With a Whiff of MAGABrittany Aldean’s Vada perfume codes conservative because she herself does. 012
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/04/2026More families who can afford it are hiring a “chief of staff for the home,” @nancywalecki.bsky.social writes. She reports on the rise of house-managing businesses, and why some people see the chance to free up their time as worth the money:bit.lyThe Rise of the House ManagerMore families who can afford it are hiring a “chief of staff for the home.” 10225
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 20/04/2026John Mark Comer’s advice for lost, phone-addicted young Christians is to live, literally, more like Jesus. I spent six months profiling/interviewing Comer and trying out the practices for @theatlantic.com's May print issue www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comIs Hurry the Great Enemy of Spiritual Life?Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive audience by encouraging his followers to free themselves from the gnawing sense that there is always more to do. 052
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/04/2026John Mark Comer’s advice for lost, phone-addicted young Christians might sound like that of any viral wellness personality—but he has a unique framing: the practices of Jesus. @nancywalecki.bsky.social spoke with the pastor and spent six months trying his practices. bit.lyIs Hurry the Great Enemy of Spiritual Life?Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive audience by encouraging his followers to free themselves from the gnawing sense that there is always more to do. 2212
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 18/04/2026No one—NO ONE—writes like James Parker. This was such a treat to read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Eighth Deadly SinHumankind has devised a new form of debasement. 010
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Got to write about how Mk.gee is making the guitar sound new again, for @theatlantic.com -- featuring Joni Mitchell, my dad, and a weird guitar device from the 90s. Please read! I had so much fun writing this www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...theatlantic.comThe Guitar Sounds New AgainThe grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device. 030
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Dear New York City: I’m sorry for all the mean things I said to you this winter; spring is lovely. 060
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I'm deep in some guitar-gear discussion threads right now for a piece I'm writing, and can I just say, I LOVE musicians. People who want to spend all their free time thinking about how to produce the most beautiful sounds possible?? My kind of folks!!! 030
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I needed the world to know that Polymarket has an X account for its female traders called @PolyBaddies. My latest for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...theatlantic.comIt’s Not Gambling, It’s ‘Girl Math’Prediction markets are trying to woo women through matcha memes and #girlboss ads. 052
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Best part of writing this was interviewing a 9-year-old who’s already 10x funnier than I’ll ever be 020
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Oh thank God, Nancy Meyers has returned to save the American rom com 💪 050
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 08/01/2026A year ago today, Arthur, a loved one of mine, died in the Palisades Fire. Thinking extra today about what a wonderful and bizarre and special person he was. Here's a tribute I wrote to him last Jan: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...theatlantic.comThe Place Where I Grew Up Is GoneAnd so is the man who made it magical 0243
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/01/2026There are many “For Sale” signs in the Palisades—as well as ones instead promising, “This home will rise again.” @nancywalecki.bsky.social reports on how long a year can feel after a fire:bit.lyThe View From the PalisadesA year is only the beginning of recovery from disaster. 0224
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 07/01/2026In the Palisades burn scar, I saw many banners and signs the community had placed where their homes and businesses used to be. I keep thinking about one on an elementary school: "Returning January 2028." My report on what my hometown looks like, one year later: www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...theatlantic.comThe View From the PalisadesA year is only the beginning of recovery from disaster. 082
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 24/12/2025I had a blast with this piece, interviewing such talented jingle writers—including the man who is literally the reason Blue Öyster Cult put more cowbell on “Don’t Fear the Reaper” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...theatlantic.comChatGPT Needs More CowbellAI struggles to write a good jingle. 0133
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiDamon Beres @damonberes.com · 24/12/2025There is something ineffably human about commercial jingles that AI doesn’t seem able to replicate; people just seem to know the difference somehow. Fascinating and fun piece by @nancywalecki.bsky.socialtheatlantic.comChatGPT Needs More CowbellAI struggles to write a good jingle. 021
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Happy Milo & the Nativity play season to all who celebrate. Has to be one of my favorite videos on the Internet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhB6...youtube.comMilo gets his Nativity part!YouTube video by Harley Walton 020
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/10/2025All that stucco, molding, and wood from the East Wing of the White House had to go somewhere. So @nancywalecki.bsky.social tried to find it.bit.lyMy Quest to Find the East Wing RubbleAn entire part of the White House can’t just disappear. 911538
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I went on a quest to find the East Wing remnants and turns out some of it may be being turned into a new hole at a golf course?? Enjoy my misadventures for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...theatlantic.comMy Quest to Find the East Wing RubbleAn entire part of the White House can’t just disappear. 1173
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 14/10/2025About to hit subscribe to this substack with every corpuscle of my being 140
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Read Elias Wachtel's debut in @theatlantic.com--nuanced + delightful piece about Gen Z switching to dumbphones that somehow also contains a beautiful meditation on the process of religious conversion ?! BRAVO! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comCan Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?My dumbphone does what an app could never do. 030
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 09/10/2025L.A. announced that it has arrested a suspected arsonist for January's Palisades Fire. But that's changed little for residents, and it hasn't changed how much I miss my loved one who died in the fire. My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...theatlantic.comL.A. Might Finally Know Who Started the Palisades FireBut it still doesn’t feel like closure. 0193
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiPatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2025What a beautiful man, what a beautiful story, an oasis in the dark, and I still have three pages to go. A big thank you for the telling. At one point, it felt like your father was that man in the wizarding world, matching wands to upcoming magicians, except this is music, and utterly more magical 161
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiJohn B. Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 19/09/2025This is fantastic from @nancywalecki.bsky.social & @theatlantic.com. The kind of piece that should exist more in the world. I don't have access to a gift link, but if you've got access to an Atlantic sub I highly recommend. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comMy Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock GodsWhen the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there. 221
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 16/09/2025What! An! Interview!!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/m...nytimes.comWhat Happened to Cameron Crowe? He Has Answers. 020
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Shrieked and told my mom, “MY STORY WAS FEATURED BY LONGREADS!!!!” Big Longreads fan. 180
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiAdrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Quite something to see this all laid out in such stark detail. Excellent reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social. Gift link here because everyone should read this: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comInside the USAID Fire SaleAround the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned. 87135
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/08/2025Claire's was once a place where tween girls went to be tween girls. Now it's in trouble, @elcush.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/8D1ts6RS 110518
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Another day, another opportunity to replay the Graham Nash/Joni Mitchell “Our House” demo over and over and over 161
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 15/08/2025The gizmo Dad uses to speak hasn’t been working, so Mom and I read his lips and act as his interpreter with other people. Dad had me relay a joke to someone. He then informed me I hadn’t delivered the joke with the right intonation. 🤦♀️ 0120
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 09/08/2025As I finalized my article about him for @theatlantic.com, Dad told our fact-checker he wanted to make sure I was highlighting his FRIENDS’ accomplishments—including the only man Dennis Wilson trusted to care for the Asian small-clawed otters he kept in his swimming pool. bit.ly/45eZIfabit.lyMy Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock GodsWhen the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there. 3151
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiAdrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 08/08/2025This is beyond great. A wonderful story by @nancywalecki.bsky.social, full of love (and rock stars!) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comMy Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock GodsWhen the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there. 43916
Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 07/08/2025When Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, and other 1970s music legends needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad, Fred Walecki, was there. My love song to him in @theatlantic.com September issue: bit.ly/45eZIfabit.lyMy Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock GodsWhen the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there. 2013731
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/08/2025When the greatest rock musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—Fred Walecki was there. @nancywalecki.bsky.social writes about her father’s work:bit.lyMy Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock GodsWhen the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there. 1509
Reposted by Nancy Kathryn WaleckiRay Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan RIP Brian Wilson 5837220